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[Hanslanda]

Ah, like isometrics type stuff.

All of them. Squat thrusts (no giggling,) are my favorite exercise. Well...actual exercise exercise, anyway.

Must. Not. Giggle.
Yeah, I'll look into some of these.

[MaximumZero]

Whenever I got giggled at over that in the dojo, I did pelvic thrusts at whoever giggled. Then, everyone giggled.

[GoombaGeek]

Eating that many calories a day, you could lift weights and likely become He-Man. Not look like him, become him.


Oddly, when this thread first started up, I had no problem avoiding caffeinated beverages. Queue my family suddenly interested in buying huge amounts of cola and Dr Pepper, and Mom buying me a huge mug for Slurpees (Frozen soda drinks). It's almost getting to the point where I'm sick of the stuff, but I keep drinking it because it has caffeine in it.

Perhaps I should begin lifting weights. Except I don't have any. :/

If you live in a remotely populated area, you will find weights at garage sales.

Every single piece of fitness equipment ever made eventually finds its way down to the garage sale level, except the infomercial ones because they break before they can change owners. It's just one of those things.

But yeah, there's tons of stuff you can do without weights, and even more without real weights. I wanted my wrists to actually fit my watch, so we got this stick/dowel thing, tied a string around the middle and put a weight on the string. Holding it in front of you and spinning it (to bring up the weight, right) really works well. Look around!

[MaximumZero]

We did TP squares, too. To wit (I got this from one of the Rangers I helped with his Muay Thai technique for combatives):

Take a square of toilet paper (he used a pistol,) and hold it in both hands. Hold it at arm's length for as long as you possibly can. You can do it forever, right? Wrong. That fucking piece of toilet paper becomes a lead weight after about three minutes.

[Hanslanda]

We did TP squares, too. To wit (I got this from one of the Rangers I helped with his Muay Thai technique for combatives):

Take a square of toilet paper (he used a pistol,) and hold it in both hands. Hold it at arm's length for as long as you possibly can. You can do it forever, right? Wrong. That fucking piece of toilet paper becomes a lead weight after about three minutes.

Ah, like in the Punisher with the anitpersonnel mine. I've got plenty of stuff I can do that with.

[MaximumZero]

Is...that the newest one? I never saw anything like that.

[Hanslanda]

Spoilers? For anyone who hasn't seen a movie that's five years old? Just saying.

The 'original' one. With the gigantic russian guy dressed like waldo. And John Travolta. John Travolta's son gets a bookshelf dropped on his arm, so Frank Castle strings up an AP mine to something up high, and rests it in the son's hand, saying, "You ever heard of isometrics? This AP mine weighs eight pounds. That's nothing right? Now try holding it with an outstretched arm."

Then later, when John Travolta is in the parking lot saying, "You killed my son!" It's like, "Aiiiieee! *BOOM*"
And Frank Castle is like, "Both of them."
Then he ruins JT, ties him to a car, then blows up the entire parking lot in the shape of the Punisher skull. That's how you serve revenge, right there.

[MaximumZero]

I could care less about spoilers, I just hadn't seen that particular movie. I might, now.

[Hanslanda]

It's pretty good. I liked it, at least. Especially when he attacks the 'compound'.

[gimlet]

Plastic gallon jugs can substitute for light dumbells for a while - 1 full one is 8.33 lbs, you can hold 2 per hand for a lot of moves although if you're using em a LOT you might want to get some cushioning.  Even if you buy them full of water that'd be about a dollar each.   Yeah you don't wanna use em for years but to get started while you look for or make equipment...

A 5 gallon bucket full of water is 40+ pounds.  Car or bicycle inner tubes can be anchored to various stuff to give some resistance.  Duct tape some bricks to a broom handle, improvise!

[Reudh]

What I use is a rubber cord, rather high tensile strength. Pull on it as if I were drawing a bow and arrow. Helps fix up my dun goofed shoulder joint.

[vidyabro]

your fight may have gotten a little more difficult

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i havent consumed caffeinated drinks habitually in years but i crash everyday after school or work and its becoming a problem recently. ive been considering caffeine powder instead. worth it?

[MaximumZero]

...I was sure you were a spambot until I looked at your posts.

And no. No, it's not worth it. Caffeine makes me feel like shit nowadays.

[vidyabro]

even i felt like a spam bot posting that. ive also noticed energy supplements in stores, overpriced and seem like gimmicks. i just tell myself that man wasn't made to work all day and stay awake even longer after that. sleep cycle equivalent of paleo diet i call it, except i cant distinguish between wanting to sleep and needing to sleep.

[gimlet]

I started drinking Yerba Mate tea, it has something like caffeine that's a bit of a stimulant but not with some of the worse side effects of caffeine.  Or it's actually caffeine, there's apparently not a complete consensus :p  Anyway whatever it is as long as I only use 1 or 2 teabags a day  I don't feel tense and it doesn't keep me up at night.  And even after a couple weeks of drinking it I was able to skip a few days without any of that "oh god caffeine withdrawal sluggish throbbing headache want to curl up and die" when I was on the daily coffee pony.  So I ordered a couple pounds and we'll see what kicking it up a notch does    I guess it's a big drink in South America.

Downside:  The first few times it tastes like boiled old moldy sweatsocks, but it grew on me and now I kinda like the taste.

Fake edit: Argh I shouldn't have looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate - I guess it really is caffeine but in smaller amounts than coffee or black tea, and the xanthines also help reduce some of the effects.  And oh boy it's associated with throat and larynx cancer, but probably because of the custom of drinking it pretty hot.  And it may reduce cholesterol a bit, have antioxidant properties and stimulate heart regeneration.  Oh well I bought it I'm gonna drink it...

Oh one other thing that helped with my endurance during the day is to force myself to eat a decent amount of protein at breakfast and lunch, with some complex carbohydrates.  So oatmeal+flaxseed, eggs, or even if I don't feel like eating much I'll eat at least a few handfuls of almonds or other nuts.  And I cut down the size of lunch so I lost that groggy feeling afterwards and make up for it by eating the other half of the sandwich later, or snacking on a nut/raisin/seed mix in between meals.

Even with that a lot of days are so go-go-go that I take a power nap at 5 or 6pm, I set a timer for 30-40 minutes in a nice dark quiet room, especially if I have a bunch of stuff to do in the evening.   Sometimes I don't even fall asleep but still feel a lot more refreshed afterwards.  Even 10 minutes makes a surprisingly big difference.  Basically if you go right into heavy REM sleep as soon as you close your eyes you REALLY NEEDED to sleep.  I see in hindsight a lot of my problems were from sleep debt, that I tried to counteract with more and more coffee, which made me sleep worse on top of trying to jam too much in at night - vicious circle...